Associate Curator Laura Simo showed the Museum Storage area of Mount Vernon’s Collections, Conservation, and Volunteer Center where artifacts are kept when not on public display. She talked about curatorship and the 150-year quest to find objects from George and Martha Washington for the estate. She showed a selection of George Washington’s personal belongings and talked about what they reveal about him as a military leader, a leading Virginia land owner, and as a citizen of the new United States of America.